Picked up the classified section of the paper and found a tasty deal on a canoe last week. 12' birch bark painted, fiberglass canoe, oars and jackets for $100. I thought to myself this could be a sweet deal or a bust, so I checked it out. After looking it over and seeing two rips in the fiber I bought it for $40. Yee-ha, I finally have a vessel. Small, but a vessel none the least. the next day I put it in the water to check the leaks, not bad. I went to Wal-Mart for a repair kit and was satisfied that I could repair it for under $15. Home I went. I live in an apartment complex in downtown Norwich and I figured that I should hide the boat so that it doesn't get ripped off my truck. I hid it at my place of work behind a couple of fences and dumpsters and covered a portion of it with a tarp and went home. Twelve hours later I was on my way to visit the boat of my dreams and all I found were foot prints. Bought on friday, stolen on sunday. Makes me sick. I am a simple fisherman, I don't cheat or steal, (some say I lie but they can't prove it), all I want is peaceful waters and boiling fish BUT, I'm pissed and I hope whoever stole it gets consumed by a large school of blue fish after the ship sinks.
Heard anything about a canoe being stolen? Let me know
A sad story, a man and his canoe
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